Catholic Geek Information: "Foxmarks" becomes "Xmarks"

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"Big yip!" you say. Well, the Foxfire browser's bookmarking utility has become portable and now is downloadable and works with Internet Explorer and other browsers. Well, I don't know if that is that much of a big deal but there is one capability on XMarks that is interesting.

Each web page or blog has a "site info" icon that can be used to discover similar pages if you are doing research. This can be useful when you are doing research and you didn't quite find what you wanted. But more importantly, Xmarks ranks pages by popularity by various categories. I have no idea how they do this. But if you want to hang out with the best and find out what pages they visit, this can be helpful.

Here is a list of Catholic Blogs and Catholic Information web pages that are quite popular (and a few local blogs that also made the rankings).

	Catholic				All
	Blogs	Catholicism	Catholic	Religion	Blogs
Whispers in the Loggia	1	41	83	1,453
"Father Z" (WDTPRS)	2	86	99	3,282	4,238
Curt Jester	3	63	109	4,089	5,921
American Papist	4	35	111	3,822	4,955
Shrine Holy Whapping	5	334	230	6,571	10,117
New Liturgical Movement	6	50	146		6,387
Mark Shea (CAEI)	7		128	6,649	7,710
Ironic Catholic	14	595		10,992	20,992
In the Light of the Law	27	127	310	9,531	12,645
Orbis Catholicus		200		17,587	40,780
Roamin' Roman			2649		62,713
Faithmouse			2810		69,848
Monastic Musings					106,781
Weight of Glory			108		120,547
New Advent		1	2	35
Catholic Answers		2	5	121
Vatican		4	6	31
CatholicOnline		5	1	56
Catholic Encyclopedia		6	7	62
American Catholic		7	8	160
EWTN		8	4	101
Catholic.net		9	10	199
Catholic Culture		10	11	343
USCCB		11	9	230
Catholicity		14	14	534
Catholic Exchange		17	13	507

Congratulations to the Ironic Catholic of Winona whose blog of the same name is number 14 in popularity among Catholic blogs. Also making the list are:

Orbis Catholicus, John Sonnen, St. Agnes parishioner studying in Rome; lots of local color
The Roamin' Roman, Veritatis' wonderful blog created during her senior year in Rome in UST's program where she did nothing but travel and take great pictures. It's been a couple of years since she has added to it, but it is still on the list.
Faithmouse, Dan Lacy, Catholic artist and cartoonist
Monastic Musings, Sr. Edith Bogue, Sociology professor at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. Really excellent
The Weight of Glory, Clayton Emmer, Twin Cities expat in Los Angeles who recently returned home.